Earlier: "...[how to] empower MediaWiki (code / variables / MySQL?) to show articles titles in lists sorted by numeric value, not text value... ...now...(example): [[1800]] [[1801.1]] [[1801]] [[700]] ...Rather then the preferred: [[700]] [[1800]] [[1801]] [[1801.1]] ... Is this a MySQL database quirk, or something selectable in PHP, even if requiring an enhancement?..."
Considering this example at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Categories&limit=500 ... # 1009 establishments (2 members) # 100 BC (6 members) ... ...I'd presume that no one has addressed the "sort by numeric value, not text value" challenge yet. Has anyone? Does anyone have any clue as to where this sorting alternative (numeric versus text) may be addressed? MySQL or PHP or ...? Anybody? Anybody?